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I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
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New Orleans
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Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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His blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestats words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard his heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.
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Yes, I know, And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
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And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have.
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The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.
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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
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His Back was turned to the end of the world and the end of the world was quiet.
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He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet sorrow flatters him like the light of candles tears become him like jewels.
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
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Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.
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Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
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